Canada announced today that it has raised its contribution for tsunami relief to $40 million dollars ($33M USD)
Ottawa pledged another $36 million to help the relief efforts in Southeast Asia in the wake of the deadly tsunami, Defence Minister Bill Graham announced Wednesday, bringing Canada’s total to $40 million.
Graham also announced that a 12-member reconnaissance [...]
DigitalGlobe is a private satellite imaging company that uses the QuickBird private satellite to create images that have a resolution of 60cm (24in). Below is one of their photos that shows the tsunami receding from Kalutara beach in Sri Lanka
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I don’t like hiking around town, just walking the streets. I just can’t motivate myself to go out and do that even though I desperately need the exercise. However, the days are too short for a lot of the year to go hiking in the woods after work. Solution?
a Petzl Compact Zipka Plus head lamp. [...]
cya all - one of my favourite jazz groups ♫ I Remember Me – Oregon
A classic Canadian piece ♫ Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald – Gordon Lightfoot
@subschema Thanks.Interesting - just the past day or so I've been trying to track down my best friend from elementary school - 48 years is too long ♫ The Devil Went Down To Georgia – The Charlie Daniels Band
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